Advanced animation engine for user-interface robots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1824-1830

  Van Breemen, A J N ^a   Xue, Yan ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animation engine; Control architecture; iCat; Personal robot; Software architecture; User interface robot

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; FADING CHANNELS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; USER INTERFACES;

ANIMATION ENGINE; CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; ICAT RESEARCH PLATFORM; PERSONAL ROBOTS; USER INTERFACE ROBOTS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 34250614261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.282225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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